Editor's note: This following edition of Nature News is a 2017 column, with 2024 updates, including a reference to our most recent snow storm. An internet outage prevented Susan Pike from writing a ...

Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. When Lauren Levinson, now a Weinberg sophomore, was applying to college, she was faced with the task all other ...

This peaceful scene is brought to us by a thirsty female Downy Woodpecker. Though not glimpsed at bird baths as frequently as many other backyard birds, woodpeckers do indeed drink water and bathe. As ...

If it is March or April in Northeast Tennessee or Southwest Virginia, or Western North Carolina, for that matter, some birds are making their return after a season-long absence. Click on the bell icon ...

A yellow-headed blackbird male. These birds are larger than red-wings and have a natural advantage in squabbles for territory. A red-winged blackbird among the cattails of a marsh. A yellow-headed ...

Sometimes I like to nerd out on a specific bird. The challenge is to learn something new, and I always do. Today's focus is the red-winged blackbird, a perfectly named harbinger of spring in northern ...

The blackbirds are back! Spring is coming. Or at least the blackbirds seem to think so.